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First Men on the Moon

This essay discusses the Apollo 11 mission when Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon while Collins waited in the mother ship. A...

Project: Largest Cruise Ship in World

that even with this economic downturn, the company has experienced strong pre-bookings for the cruises (Barnes, 2009). STX Finlan...

Terrorism, Maritime Security, and Shipping Containers After the September 11, 2001 Attacks

weapons in outwardly harmless looking shipping containers (Smith, 2002). This report strongly suggests that delivering such nucle...

IMO's ISPS Code and International Maritime Security Issues

after 9/11, William A. ONeil, the Secretary-General of the IMO, proposed a "Review of Measures and Procedures to Prevent Acts of T...

ARAMEX

their expectations by providing global, customized logistics and information solutions rapidly, reliably and cost-effectively (Ara...

Allocation Assessment and Pricing for a Container Ship

of the calculation seeing the 40 foot containers charged at twice the price of the 20 foot containers. The costs for the 40 foot c...

An Overview of Fleet Management in Shipping

higher level of competition chasing the demand, This is resulting in many unused ships and fleet managers have to decide i...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Introduction The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is referred to as magical realism for there are elements within his stories that ...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

Business Dynamics of ZDNet News

rely on ZDNet to deliver deep insight into IT planning, vendor consideration, and product selection" (ZDNet, 2006). To accomplish...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

The Principle Agent Relationship between Management and Employees

common ground can be found and the relationship can be beneficial to both the employer and the employee. A useful framework that c...

A Most Fortunate Ship

particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...

Moscow and Chocolate Exportation

dominated by local companies (Russian Food Market Magazine, 2005). In Moscow, this market is held by Rot-Front, Babayevskoye and K...

Container Ports and Mega Ship Deployment Impacts

the need to change and adapt to changing ship sizes is not unique to this time. There has been change in the shipping industry for...

UK Shipping Law and VBeem Case Study

lading itself is not a contract itself, as seen with the case of Swewell v Burdick (1884) 10 App Cas 74 and also The Ardennes [195...

Containing Shipping Operational Issues

involvement in management of the Ports which has also increased the level of productivity, but means increased levels of negotiati...

"The Way of a Ship"

mountains and is in compression. In its most violent manifestation (a williwaw) it can dump over high land spilling out onto the w...

The Good Ship "Lead Balloon"

aluminum alloy." One of the problems is that the Saturn 5 was built by a bunch of different contractors, and there is now no compl...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

Pollution and the Tourism Industry

was worth a total of $5.5 trillion (Wagner, 2005). In the United States the travel and tourism sector is very important to the ec...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Marketing Costs and Application of Activity Based Costing

Swensens, which focused on ice cream in their independent shops. Though the independent shops segment was declining, the im...

Strategic Development of Fast Ship Company

but at half the price. The overall goals, for customers using Fast Ship would include a more cost-effective and efficient ...

European Union Competition Law Application

scale, there will also be an increase in market share. However, if the market share is too great then the company may be in a domi...

A.A. Hoehling's The Fighting Liberty Ships

Navy. There, at night, one yeoman was generally assigned fly-swatting duty; here, we were not so fortunate to have surplus manpowe...

Indonesia Rice Shipments by the United States

Denmark-based Maersk Sealand is one of the largest surface shippers in the world. It maintains more than 250 container vessels an...